Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 253, 5 April 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

FIERCE BAYONET FIGHTS.

RUSSIANS ADVANCING IN THIi CARPATHIANS.

AUSTRIAN DEFENCES SCALED.

Received April 4, f1.5 p.m. Petrograd, April 2. A communique states:—"Our offensive on the Nieiuen continues. The Germans were driven back with heavy losses. Our troops escaliuled the ice-covered Austrian escarpments toward Uszok Pass, and carried an important range of heights and almost all the summits of the I'olonina range on a considerable front after fierce bayonet fighting. Austrian prisoners taken in the Carpathians on Thursday totalled 2300.

AUSTRIAN'S ADMIT DEFEAT.

BUT RETREAT "SLIGHTLY."

Received April 5, 12.20 a.m. London, April 3. An Austrian official message says:--"Russian reinforcements at Oisna, southward rf Baligrod, compelled us to retreat slightly."

BIG CAPTURE OF AUSTRIANS. Received April 5, 12.20 a.m. Petrograd, April 1. Official: We are successfully developing the offensive in the Carpathians. We captured a hundred officers and seven thousand men.

GENERALS CAPTURED AT

PRZEMYSL.

Pctrograd, -April 2. The generals captured at Przemysl in. eluded Generals Kusmarcfc, Lieutenant-Field-'Marshalls Tamasi, Weizendorfcr and Nik],

RUSSIAN GENERAL INVALIDED.

Petrograd, April 2. General Russky, the victor at Lemberg, and pTzasnysz, has given up his .command in the field army. He has been suffering from internal cancer, But lias hitherto herocially refused to resign.